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Free Common Core RI.8.6 resources
FREE STAAR Daily Reading Comprehension Passages Review Warm Up Bell Ringer Quiz
Are your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in need of repeat practice when it comes to STAAR reading test prep? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.This 1 Week Review of daily reading practice has short, engaging texts with text-dependent reading comprehension questions. It's the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of a variety of text genres (Fiction, Poetry, Informational Text, Argumentative, and Cross-Curricul
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6th - 9th
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Sled Dog Racing | Reading Comprehension Passage & ELA Tasks
FREE! HIGH-INTEREST NO PREP PRINTABLES AND EASY DISTANCE LEARNING! Thorough, high-interest 2-page passage about sled dog racing for any time of year. Student will preview & practice relevant vocabulary, read the text closely to answer comprehension questions, practice supporting inferences by citing textual evidence, interpret a visual diagram, and compare viewpoints on the race. WOW!!!Fascinating subject matter that puts readers at ease! Kids love reading and writing about dogs and will not
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4th - 9th
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Any Time NEW DAY Resolutions | Social Emotional Learning | Reading Comprehension
You don't have to wait until the New Year to make resolutions. Use these Any Time "NEW DAY" Resolutions to re-engage students! Your Middle School and High School students will laugh at the funny reading comprehension passage.There are three parts to this Social Emotional Learning Skills / Life Skills resource:1) The Goal Setting worksheets are for everybody (4 pages)Help students develop SELF AWARENESS and adjust to a changing world. Reflect on the challenges and successes from the past.Brainsto
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7th - 10th
Reading Comprehension Passages - Reading Informational Text Grade 8 FREEBIE
Reading Comprehension Passage: Informational Text (RI) - Grade 8 (FREEBIE)-a Leveled 300-word Reading Passage (Assessment)-Reading Comprehension Questions (aligned with RI Common Core Standards)-a Teacher data recording/progress monitoring/tracking sheet-Instruction SheetIn the FULL/PAID version you will find enough assessments to use for your annual, semester, trimester, or quarterly progress monitoring in Reading Comprehension. Each FULL/PAID Version includes 5 Reading Passages, two pages of R
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7th - 9th
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FREE Reading Comprehension Passages with Multiple Choice Questions Task Cards
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to reading comprehension? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 10 reading skills task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short well-known Fiction stories and modern Non-Fiction articles will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and constructed respo
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5th - 9th
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6th - 8th Grade ELA FREE LESSON PLANS CURRICULUM MAP SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
Your 6-8th Grade ELA PLANNING for the year is complete! These quarterly smart maps are perfectly aligned and sequenced to CCSS and designed to focus on one of the 4 MAJOR WRITING TASKS each quarter with reading material integrated to support the writing.Includes Quarterly: Editable standards, calendar, smart link planner, note-taking, and suggested standard-aligned resource bookshelves.No purchases are necessary to completely use this resource. You can easily use your own resources. An optional
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Literary Elements and Narrative Writing QUARTER 1 BUNDLE
Informational Text Reading Passage | Test Prep | SBAC | CAASPP | PDF & Digital
Help your students prepare for standardized testing with this practice reading passage. Great for Common Core or the Smarter Balance test!This common core aligned test prep resource has 10 questions written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see on standardized testing.Question types: multiple-choice, multi-select, A/B questions (evidence-based selected response), and constructed response.Print Version Includes:- 1 NoniFiction Passage- 10 Text-Dependent Questi
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5th - 9th
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Author's Purpose Activity | Nonfiction Task Cards | Free
This resource is an engaging way for students to practice identifying the author's purpose of nonfiction, informational texts. This activity will help middle school students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade prepare for the STAAR or other state tests by providing repetitive practice with the same question type. This can also be used as a gallery walk. Students will also answer a written response question in which they explain their reasoning.✨This Product Includes✨5 Half-page task cards with multiple c
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Author's Purpose Task Cards for Middle School | Bundle
Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: The Break-In
In this fun mystery activity, students have to follow the clues to figure out why criminals broke into a store, but took nothing! Why did this happen? What's the real crime? This is a great way to teach and practice critical thinking skills as your students practice their reading skills and use their logic skills.Also available as a PowerPoint presentation or Google Slides.What is a Clue by Clue Mystery?It's a great warm-up, filler, or time killer for early finishers. Students are given a myster
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
"Earth's Water Supply" Informational Text Reading Passage & ELA Tasks - FREE
High-interest FREE informational text with quantitative information. NO PREP PRINTABLES AND EASY DISTANCE LEARNING! Interesting & informative 2-page informational text passage about how much fresh water is available and why there are shortages when demand has not yet exceeded the supply. Students will need to be able to read percentages which are all throughout the text as well as in a chart. Questions about central ideas, author's purpose, quantitative information. Perfect for getting stude
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5th - 12th
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Free Nonfiction Reading Exit Tickets Assessment Quiz | 6th 7th and 8th
These ten free exit tickets are a sample of my complete middle school ELA Nonfiction Reading Exit Tickets resource. Quick formative assessment of your middle ELA students' nonfiction standards mastery has never been easier.Here's what you'll get:10+ Literature Exit Tickets with two exit tickets per pagePossible answers for EVERY single exit ticket.6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Common Core Literature Standards.1-2 exit tickets for each CCSS nonfiction standardThe Complete Nonfiction Exit Tickets Resour
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6th - 8th
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FREE Reading Comprehension Task Cards BEST Standards for 6th 7th & 8th Grade
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to reading comprehension? Finding a short and manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 8 reading task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students the practice they need.The use of well-known fiction stories and short modern informational text will help engage your students as they practice answering multi-part (eviden
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Task Cards 6th 7th 8th Grade Reading Comprehension Practice Activity
Grade 5 - 8 Charts & Graphs Reading Comprehension Passages
Understanding charts and graphs is an essential skill for students to develop. From map apps, to weather forecasts, to street signs, and on to more complicated things like data visualizations at higher grade levels, we use charts and graphs to make inferences and interpret the world around us. These chart and graph reading passages come directly from our game Dreamscape where students build critical thinking skills through literacy and reading comprehension questions while doing what kids do b
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5th - 8th
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Reading Comprehension Task Cards | Common Core | Print & Google Forms
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to reading comprehension?These 10 fiction, non-fiction, and poetry reading comprehension task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions modeled after common core standardized test questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.Great for SBAC & CAASPP test prep!The use of well-known fiction stories, short modern informational text articles, and kid-friendly poems will help engage your s
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6th - 9th
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FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Determining Author's Purpose Task Cards
Determining author’s purpose is a necessary skill for students, and with these task cards they can practice this skill. These cards are aligned with Common Core Standard RI.6.6, and are useful for differentiation with RI.7.6 and RI.8.6.This product includes:-Suggestions for use-Title Cards (Author’s Purpose, Persuade, Inform, Entertain)-15 task cards (5 for each type)-1 additional card (What key words helped you determine the author’s purpose?)(Suggestion: print these task cards on cardstock an
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4th - 8th
Author's Point of View in Informational Text
Having trouble finding activities about author's point of view in nonfiction? Bored by the monotonous activities and task cards? Look no further!
I created these reading response activities because I couldn't find an engaging lesson where students analyze an author's position/point of view in a nonfiction text.
This resource includes 3 reading response activities that go along with the following nonfiction articles:
~ "Are Young Athletes Putting Themselves at Risk?" from Junior Scholastic,
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6th - 9th
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Nonfiction & Informational Texts One-Pager | Graphic Organizer
This is one page for informational or nonfiction texts with questions that connect to multiple skills such as, inferences, author's purpose, text structure, and summary. Pair this one pager with any nonfiction text. ✨Resources You Might Also Like✨Task Cards: Why do author's include graphics?Author's Purpose Task Cards (10 Cards)Text Features Mini lesson and Activity
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4th - 9th
ELA TEST PREP | RACE Writing Strategy Rubric
ELA TEST PREP for middle school just got a whole lot easier with this RACET writing rubric and easy digital scorer. You can fly through the grading process with this rubric/scorer system with drag and drop features.USE WITH ANY PROMPT AND PASSAGE.THIS IS A PDF/ GOOGLE SLIDES FORMATHere's how it works for the DIGITAL VERSION:1-Add your writing prompt, passage or link to passage, and instructions to the WRITING PROMPT PAGE.2-Assign the WRITING PROMPT AND RUBRIC OF YOUR CHOICE to your students indi
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5th - 9th
3 FREE Learning Tasks for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” Speech!
The following resource includes 3 FREE and RIGOROUS Common Core learning tasks to be used after students have read and studied Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington “I Have A Dream” speech.
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MLK "I Have A Dream" Common Core Annotated Text w/Marginal Notes
MLK and Obama's March on Washington Speeches -
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6th - 12th
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Real-Life Narrative Text - Roberta Bondar - Women's History Month - OSSLT
Explore the biography of female astronaut Roberta Bondar with this real-life narrative text! Evaluate students’ understanding using reading comprehension questions in multiple-choice and short-answer format. This resource is perfect for preparing for the OSSLT, teaching the Ontario Literacy Course (OLC4O), or coaching essential literacy. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with this Real-Life Narrative Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions:✏️ Real-Life Narrative R
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6th - 10th
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Author's Purpose for Writing (Persuade, Inform, Entertain) - FREEBIE
Author's Purpose: it's as easy as P.I.E.!Teaching your students to Persuade, Inform, and Entertain in their writing has never been easier. Where you are beginning an informational essay unit, writing arguments, or creating stunning personal narratives, 'Author's Purpose' should always be mentioned. Review this concept with your students with this quick worksheet. Font: Kimberly Geswein FontsPicture: Freepik.com
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2nd - 10th
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Article of the Week 1 African Elephants for Middle School Printable and Digital
The Article of the Week provides students with weekly reading assignments! Students will read a rigorous article, answer rigorous questions, learn new vocabulary, write summaries, and so much more!There is a PRINTABLE PDF and GOOGLE SLIDES™ for each article and activity included!In this Article of the Week, I have included 3 different levels of the article and the question sets! Assign your students the appropriate article level and question sets. This is perfect for ESL/ELL students and lower-l
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Article of the Week BUNDLE Volume 1, 9 Weeks of AOWs Printable & Digital
CRAAP Test Reference Poster/Handout
This poster provides a visual reference with definitions for the CRAAP test (currency, reliability, authority, accuracy, purpose). These is a great tool to use during research projects, when students must identify and gather credible sources. Great for a 22" x 28" wall poster, or alike ratio. Adapted from Meriam Library, California State University.
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7th - 12th
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